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09 June 1889. Newman, Francis William to Braithwaite, Robert.

09 June 1889. Newman, Francis William to Braithwaite, Robert.

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Yours FW Newman
I enclose an order on Triibner for you.
Norwood Villa,
15, Arundel Crescent,
Weston Super Mare.
June 9/89
My dear Braithwaite
Much writing, especially for some matter in hand for my Mathematical Printer, superadded, has preoccupied me.
I am sorry to hear that you have not been at all well.
I will first deal with my treatment of the LXX. You know that before the dispersion, the native Jews were contented with a literature which used only their textual letters, and supplied the Vowels, not all short, from their own intimacy with the language. Hence the Sacred Books, as read in their Synagogues in the Captivity, had no vowel points. When these became scholastically fixed, others may know, but I do not. I only know that the Ptolemaic translators had to add vowels as we add them in deciphering a short hand. It was a matter of judgment, requiring

[continued from page 3]:
Yours FW Newman
I enclose an order on Triibner for you.
Norwood Villa,
15, Arundel Crescent,
Weston Super Mare.
June 9/89
My dear Braithwaite
Much writing, especially for some matter in hand for my Mathematical Printer, superadded, has preoccupied me.
I am sorry to hear that you have not been at all well.
I will first deal with my treatment of the LXX. You know that before the dispersion, the native Jews were contented with a literature which used only their textual letters, and supplied the Vowels, not all short, from their own intimacy with the language. Hence the Sacred Books, as read in their Synagogues in the Captivity, had no vowel points. When these became scholastically fixed, others may know, but I do not. I only know that the Ptolemaic translators had to add vowels as we add them in deciphering a short hand. It was a matter of judgment, requiring